5.Click New NAS Appliance.

The New NAS Appliance dialog box appears.

6.Select the NAS appliance to add to the FluidFS cluster.

a)In the top pane, select the NAS appliance.

b)Click Add Appliance.

The selected NAS appliance is moved to the bottom pane.

c)Click Finish.

*For Fibre Channel NAS appliances, the Configure Client Network page displays.

*For iSCSI NAS appliances, the Configure IP Addresses for NAS Controller iSCSI HBAs page displays.

7.(iSCSI only) Complete the Configure IP Addresses for NAS Controller iSCSI HBAs page to configure the IP addresses for SAN / eth30.

a)Select a NAS controller and click Edit Settings. The Edit Controller IP Address dialog box appears.

b)In the IP Address field, type an IP address for the NAS controller.

c)Click OK.

Repeat the preceding steps for each NAS controller.

d)To specify a VLAN tag, type a VLAN tag in the VLAN Tag field.

When a VLAN spans multiple switches, the VLAN tag is used to specify to which ports and interfaces to send broadcast packets.

e)Click Next.

8.(iSCSI only) Complete the Configure IP Addresses for NAS Controller iSCSI HBAs page to configure the IP addresses for SANb / eth31.

a)Select a NAS controller and click Edit Settings. The Edit Controller IP Address dialog box appears.

b)In the IP Address field, type an IP address for the NAS controller.

c)Click OK.

Repeat the preceding steps for each NAS controller.

d)To specify a VLAN tag, type a VLAN tag in the VLAN Tag field.

When a VLAN spans multiple switches, the VLAN tag is used to specify to which ports and interfaces to send broadcast packets.

e)Click Next. The Configure Client Network page displays.

9.If needed, add additional client VIPs through which the clients will access CIFS shares and NFS exports.

a)In the Virtual IPv4 Addresses area, click Add. The Add Client IP Address dialog box appears.

b)In the IPv4 Address field, type a client VIP IP address.

c)Click OK.

10.Add an IP address for each new NAS controller. Repeat the following steps for each NAS controller.

a)(iSCSI only) Complete the Configure IP Addresses for NAS Controller iSCSI HBAs page to configure the IP addresses for SANb / eth31.

b)In the IP Address field, type an IP address for the NAS controller.

c)Click OK.

11.(Optional) Configure the remaining client network attributes as needed.

– To change the netmask of the client network, type a new netmask in the Netmask field.

– To specify a VLAN tag, type a VLAN tag in the VLAN Tag field.

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NX3500, NX3600, NX3610 specifications

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